Category: Const Law Issues

Real Truth About Obama Petition

Real Truth About Obama petitioned the Fourth Circuit for a rehearing en banc and the filing is here. While Leake provided clarity to campaign-finance law, the panel decision saw the field as “difficult and complicated,” slip. op. at 10, and introduced confusion. En banc review should be granted because      “[p]articipants in the political process must […]

Citizens United In the News

The LA Times’ David Savage reports on the upcoming rehearing of argument in Citizens United. This could take us back to the era when people referred to the senator from Standard Oil,” said Washington lawyer Trevor Potter, who last year advised Republican Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign. “If you have hundreds of millions of corporate […]